Eat This: Urban Standard’s Breakfast Plate

By Jan Walsh

Photography by Beau Gustafson

An eclectic mix of patrons—students, freelancers, artists, and business people—eat breakfast at Urban Standard. Amid a backdrop of exposed brick walls covered with art and vintage maps, some meet for coffee while others order a power breakfast.

I opt for the power breakfast, Urban Standard’s breakfast plate. Two golden yellow, free-range, scrambled eggs arrive with a generous bowl of white, creamy grits, a made-from-scratch, old-fashioned biscuit, and a pot of bacon jam. I slather a pat of butter and a spoonful of jam inside the biscuit, pour cream into my large mug of deep dark, Americano coffee, and savor each bite of this hearty and tasty breakfast.